Young jobseekers suffer cruellest cut

THIS state’s de facto invitation to young trades people and graduates to emigrate is clearly the cruellest cut of all in the budget.

Young jobseekers suffer cruellest cut

Brian Lenihan senior cynically proclaimed “the island was too small for all of us” during the FF-made recession in the 1980s.

His more cerebral son was not so explicit but every bit as sincere in his crafting of a decision to humiliate and starve young people into leaving. Not many of them enjoy life on welfare. They don’t need to be forced to take jobs – they desperately want a job and the dignity it brings.

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